The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
LEO TOLSTOYEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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